Archives for May 2007

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night famously begins with the lines, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Love and music play starring roles in all of David E. Talbert’s plays, including Love in the Nick of Tyme, which comes to The Fox Theatre this month.

Who says hybrids lack horsepower? The Lexus LS 600h L is the world’s first hybrid-powered V8 with a peak combined output rating of more than 430 horsepower, allowing it to go from zero to 60 mph in less than 5.5 seconds…

In 1979, Barry Hughson came home from school and told his mother he was starting a theater company. Thrilled, she started rummaging for some old blankets he could hang up and use for a set. The 11-year-old gently told his mother that he already had a real theater. “I had gone to the church and asked the priest if we could do shows in the church basement,” Hughson remembers. His father was so impressed with Barry’s ambition, he enlisted an attorney to draw up the 501(c)(3) paperwork, recruited an adult board of directors and Connecticut’s Youth Theatre Ensemble was born. “I cut my teeth on it, and it lasted for 20 years,” Hughson says…